Word: floridity
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...retained as his study the chilly, inconvenient third-floor cubicle that had served him for years. He was a tolerant man but a desire was growing upon him to avoid his family, to be alone and do nothing. Their solicitude stifled him. His Jewish son-in-law's florid devotion to the memory of Tom Outland-whom he had never known but whose inventions, willed to Rosamond St. Peter, had made him rich-was an affront to which bt. Peter could say nothing...
...florid son-in-law took Rosamond and the professor's wife abroad; St. Peter escaped the jaunt with difficulty. He edited Outland s diary of the year in the cliff city, wrote a foreword and lay through long thoughtful evenings on his old box couch, covered with Tom's Navajo saddle-blanket. There was a high wind the night he had a cable from his returning wife, blew out the gas in the leaky heater. St. Peter smelled the room filling and wondered if he was obliged to save his life, now that it seemed so completed...
...your Aug. 24 issue, Forbes-Robertson's autobiography, Page 14, "is a snapshot album." Miss Harrington's Glorious Apollo, " a florid woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn," and "only a patient reader will . . . win through, to the central piece of work that recommends" Miss Wilson's The Kenworthys. No other books are reviewed...
Last week Thos. Cook & Son and other panders of rubberneckery rushed crowds of sightseers to a new gawking place. For the first time in 400 years the kitchens of Hampton Court Palace, whence came the viands of Cardinal Wolsey and florid Henry VIII, were thrown open to the public. Where the Master Cook, velvet-gowned, bechained with gold, had once held powers of all but life and death over his scullions, thronged many a one who thought himself as good as many another, and probably considerably better...
Closely scrutinized, each gleaming adornment was seen to be a golden watch key, graven with fine print and a florid script on the one side, with three stars, a pointing hand and the Greek P B K on the reverse...